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The U.S. Geological Survey Pacific Coastal and Marine office in Santa Cruz, California, is seeking to acquire a CeeScope Echo Sounder M195 hydrographic survey system. This system includes a dual frequency echo sounder and an external GNSS cable, designed for high-precision marine surveying tasks. The contract is classified under NAICS Code 334519, which covers the manufacturing of measuring and controlling devices, and the contract size standard is set at 500 employees. The USGS intends to award this contract non-competitively to Cee HydroSystems USA, Inc. based in Carlsbad, California, citing FAR 13.106-1(b)(1) as the basis for a sole source award. The anticipated contract will be firm fixed price, and vendors must be registered in the System for Award Management (SAM) to be eligible. Cee HydroSystems is known for providing scientific-grade echo sounders capable of integrating raw echogram data with Hypack software for shallow water mapping, featuring a portable design, an independent control box, internal data logging, and high sampling rates. Interested parties were required to submit any questions electronically via email by August 19, 2017. The contract solicitation was posted on August 9, 2017, by the Department of the Interior’s Office of Acquisition Grants-National located in Reston, Virginia. The procurement focuses on leveraging established capabilities of Cee HydroSystems to meet the USGS’s specific hydrographic survey requirements through a streamlined non-competitive contracting process.